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Bangladesh’s latest coronavirus lockdown looks set to overshadow the fifth anniversary of the country’s worst terror attack, when pro-Islamic State militants strode into a local restaurant and unleashed a night of horror that some survivors say they would rather forget.
On July 1-2, 2016, five young men who belonged to a Bangladeshi militant group aligned with the IS extremist organization slaughtered 20 people during a siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery, a café located in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter.
“We cannot forget this tragic event,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told BenarNews.
This year’s remembrance of the attack, however, will be diminished because of a strict lockdown that the government has imposed to contain surging COVID-19 cases in the South Asian nation, he indicated.